The Picture House to Welcome Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Paul Haggis

Paul Haggis, the award-winning filmmaker who, in 2006, became the first screenwriter to write two consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners - Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture 2006) directed by Clint Eastwood, and Crash (Best Picture 2005) which Haggis also directed, will be at The Picture House on Thursday, June 5th at 7pm to screen his latest film, Third Person, which opens to limited release nationwide on June 20th. The special advance screening and post-film discussion will be hosted by The Picture House’s new critic-in-residence, Marshall Fine.

Third Person, written and directed by Haggis, which features an impressive cast including Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Maria Bello, Moran Atlas, and Kim Basinger, tells the interlocking love stories of three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and the Tribeca Film Festival in April.

Renowned film critic Marshall Fine (hollywoodadfine.com) will host another advance screening and post-film discussion of WHITEY: United States of America V. James J. Bulger with Academy Award nominated director Joe Berlinger on Monday, June 16th at 7pm. The Picture House Film Club with Marshall Fine which debuts in October will offer six-film screenings in each of three series—fall, winter, and spring. Tickets will go on sale for The Picture House members on June 2nd and for the general public on June 14th.

Tickets to the June 5th special advance screening of Third Person are FREE for members, $12/general admission, $10/students and seniors, and are available at www.thepicturehouse.org or at the box office, 175 Wolfs Lane, Pelham, NY 10803.